# Check out my new signature **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862 "2002-12-19T19:05:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jukeball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jukeball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jukeball)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/1 "2002-12-19T19:05:37Z")
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**Author:** ![Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/2 "2002-12-19T19:20:02Z")
… is now taking all bets on the lifespan of this one, folks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/3 "2002-12-19T20:01:48Z")
Jukeball - please shorten your signature. Our guideline is approximately 4 lines of text on a “standard” monitor. Also the alternating uppercase/lowercase is annoying. I would suggest you change that as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/4 "2002-12-19T20:12:31Z")
If you just delete all the capital letters, it comes out to ~_" m nt rl, jst fgmnt f yr mgntn, ws crtd n yr mnd, nd wll rmn thr fr trnty, blvs t yr xstnc. y wll hr m, bcs 'm n lsv mldy, bt y my nt s m s m bynd th nvsbl. mrg nt th msts jst lk n llsn. y my nt tch m s wll rn thrgh yr fngrs lk shnng dst. bt my prsnce wll frvr b flt. wll hnt yr drms nd sv y frm yr nghtmrs, m yr hp nd fth. thgh m nt rl, y bliv n m, bcs 'm th rlm f mgntn"_~ Probably still a bit long, but just about as readable. Taking out the punctuation, too would probably shorten it enough to pass. p.s., you missed an ‘e’ in prEsEncE, and an “i” in bElIEvE. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/5 "2002-12-19T21:43:44Z")
Sounds a bit like Welsh **Ethilrist** I suggest leaving out the alphabetic characters altogether. The punctuation is fine and doesn’t hurt my eyes at all. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/6 "2002-12-19T23:22:14Z")
~_",.,…,.,’"_~ Howzzat? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/7 "2002-12-19T23:32:13Z")
Well, at least all the text is the same color and size. If there had been changes to that every other character, we would have had 40 kb of markup. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/8 "2002-12-19T23:58:24Z")
Oh, just as well I can’t see it since I have view all sigs turned off in my profile 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/9 "2002-12-20T00:04:40Z")
For the sake of balance here is what it would look like with _only_ the capital letters/vowels. I A Ot EA, U A IE O OU IAIAIO, I A EAE I OU I, A I EAI EE fO EEI, OIIOU O OU EIEE. OU I EA E, EAUE I’ A EUIE EO, U OU A O EE E A I A EO E IIIE. I EE IO E I U IE A IUIO. OU A O OU E A I I U OU OU IE IE II U. U EE I OEE E E. I I AU OU EA A AE OU O OU IAE, I A OU OE A AI. OU I A O EA, OU EEE I E, EAUE I’ E EA O IAIAIO Personally I like it this way better. Although **Jukeball** failed to properly distinguish between the letter ‘Y’ as a consonant and as a vowel and improperly left an ‘I’ uncapitalized in the word ‘believe’ in the last sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Happyjoelucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Happyjoelucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happyjoelucky)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/10 "2002-12-20T03:30:44Z")
I think you should edit out everything but the spaces.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/11 "2002-12-20T11:40:27Z")
If you exclude all characters that don’t appear in the string “dumb signature”, you get: I Am nt rEA Ust A IgmEnt Ur ImAgInAtIn I As rEAtEd In Ur mInd And I rEmAIn tErE r EtErnIt bIIUs t Ur EIstEnE U I EAr mE bEAUsE Im An EUsIE mEd bUt U mA nt sEE mE As I Am bEnd tE InIsIbE I mErgE Int tE mIsts Ust IE An IUsIn U mA nt tU mE As I I rUn trUg Ur IngErs IE sInIng dUst bUt m rEsEne I rEEr bE Et I I AUnt Ur drEAms And sAE U rm Ur nIgtmArEs I Am Ur E And AIt tUg I Am nt rEA U bEiEE In mE bEAUsE Im tE rEAm ImAgInAtIn ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/12 "2002-12-20T13:16:20Z")
I’m testing mine in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/13 "2002-12-20T13:22:55Z")
Test ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/14 "2002-12-20T13:24:53Z")
Test 2 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/15 "2002-12-20T14:09:30Z")
Testing mine, while we’re here. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/16 "2002-12-20T14:12:34Z")
I like mine. It’s a reflection of an old thread. It’s…interesting… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/17 "2002-12-20T14:22:43Z")
**Meatros!** _ah-hem!_\* Point of order! Four lines only! harrumph, sir. Harrumph! ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/18 "2002-12-20T14:32:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*_ **Meatros!** ah-hem!_ Point of order! > Four lines only! > harrumph, sir. Harrumph! \*\* Uh…I don’t know what your talking about…you must be mistaken… Oh, and How 'bout swiss cheese? Doesn’t everyone love swiss cheese? It’s great, it goes good on subs and in other sandwiches. Truly a miracle of the modern age. And how do they get those holes in it anyhow??? Did that get the attention off of me? ---
**Author:** ![Jukeball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jukeball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jukeball)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/19 "2002-12-21T11:25:04Z")
Modified and ready to hit the boards!! ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-my-new-signature/143862/20 "2002-12-21T18:01:50Z")
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